Summer Solstice 2025
JUNE 17-23, 2025 | Big Island, Hawaii
with guest healer, Dr. Paul Wang plus breakfast and special dinners with Chef Peter
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE BLOSSOM AND FLOURISH IN YOUR LIFE?
Join us on the Big Island of Hawaii, home of Mauna Kea and sacred Kealakekua Bay, for a radiant 2025 Summer Solstice week as we bask in the warming energies of Pele’s fertile lands and majestic seas to expand our connection to nature, community and being.
Solstice amplifies our vision, fuels our fire, enhances our sensitivity to possibilities beyond our old stories and stale identities. We feel into the new who we want to be. We ignite the process of embodying our future self in this moment. We illuminate both our intentions and blockages to create our most meaningful life. We commune our wholeness within to heal our relationships.
Our group cultivation guide and guest healer for this sacred journey is Dr. Paul C. Wang, Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine (DACM). Dr. Wang will share his integration of martial, medical, and mystical paths as our collective story of mythic mastery — a process which actualizes our full potential. Through practical principles and meaningful flows, he will orchestrate a series of three 2-hour morning activation sessions throughout the sabbatical week to harmonize our mind, heart, body with soul, spirit, source.
Join our annual Summer Solstice sabbatical week to:
Ensoul universal principles through meditation, movement, memetic practices
Enrich your mind, body, heart, spirit with the eternal elements
Encounter fellow lovers of solitude, plentitude, gratitude
Enter a reality the celebrates more awe, joy, play
Enact insights into your daily lifeways
OUR SUMMER SOLSTICE FLOW
DAY 1: MON, JUNE 16 >> GROUND & SETTLE IN
Be greeted by your hosts and settle into your sweet home and resting space for the week
Enjoy a locally-inspired, seasonally prepared welcome dinner by Chef Peter and receive an overview of our weeklong journey
DAY 2: TUES, JUNE 17 >> ANCHOR YOUR INTENTIONS WITH THE MAJESTY OF LAND & SEA
From 8 - 9:30 am, enjoy a nourishing breakfast buffet before our group sessions
From 10 am - 12 pm, enjoy our first group morning activation session with Dr. Paul C. Wang to deepen into the Chinese Medicine themes of summer and refine our personal intentions for this season
Use the self-guided sabbatical journaling tools and connect with abundance of the land and the ocean to support the expansion of your visions
Receive a custom curated itinerary for places to harvest the medicine of the island aligned with your personal intentions
At 5 pm, enjoy an afternoon sunset excursion at the Place of Refuge (sacred site close to us) to connect with Hawaii culture, history and mythology
At 7:30 pm, nourish with a locally-inspired, seasonally prepared dinner by Chef Peter
DAYS 3 & 4: WED, JUNE 18 & THURS, JUNE 19 >> HARVEST THE POTENT ENERGY OF SUMMER
From 8 - 9:30 am, enjoy a nourishing breakfast buffet before our group sessions
From 10 am - 12 pm, enjoy follow-up group morning activation sessions with Dr. Paul C. Wang to deepen into inner resonance and outer balance
Book optional wellness sessions to help you heal, rejuvenate and harmonize with your body, mind, spirit
Practice embodying and living your intentions while you’re here by consciously choosing how you want to spend your time and energy
At 6:30 pm, nourish with a locally-inspired, seasonally prepared dinner by Chef Peter
On June 20, co-create a summer solstice gratitude altar and alchemize the energy of the fire element with an evening fire ceremony to release what no longer serves you and make space for the shifts you want to catalyze in your life
DAY 5: FRI, JUNE 21 >> DEEPEN, NOURISH & FERTILIZE YOUR INTENTIONS
From 8 - 9:30 am, kick off the day with a nourishing breakfast buffet
Integrate the medicine of the island with an optional morning excursion to Paleaku Peace Gardens
At 6:30 pm, nourish with a locally-inspired, seasonally prepared dinner by Chef Peter
DAY 6: SAT, JUNE 22 >> RELEASING RITUAL
Kick off the day with a nourishing breakfast buffet
Early morning journey to Volcano National Park to connect to work with the energy of fire & deepen our connection to Goddess Pele with our prayers and offerings
Enjoy dinner out in Hilo
Visit Mauna Kea and give offerings to the sacred mountain
Create a verbal/visual reminder to facilitate a smooth transition back
DAY 7: SUN, JUNE 23 >> GIVE GRATITUDE & PREPARE TO TRANSITION
Visit the spots that you felt a special connection to on the land and give gratitude before you leave
Enjoy a final group breakfast and closing dinner prepared by Chef Peter
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Sabbatical coaching sessionl to clarify your needs, desires and intentions
Three 2-hour guided morning sessions with Dr. Paul Wang
Comfortable lodging (single & double occupancy options)
6 brunches and 6 farm to table dinners by Chef Peter
Sabbatical toolkit and special wellness gifts made by local artisans
Self-guided journaling tools to keep track of your experience and insights along the way
Access to private meditation spots, yoga studio and ocean views
Guided meditiative walk to connect with the healing power spots near our sister site (i.e., Place of Refuge, Paleaku Peace Gardens & sacred Kealakekua Bay)
S P A C I O U S N E S S !
Releasing fire ritual to let go of what no longer serves you
Custom curated excursions aligned with your personal intentions
EXTRA SERVICES
Entrance to Volcano National Park
Massage, acupuncture, energy work and other wellness services
Private dance, movement, yoga classes
Guided tours to our favorite sacred sites around Big Island
1:1 post-sabbatical integration sessions to support your transition back
BOOK YOUR SPOT TODAY!
About Dr. Paul C. Wang, DACM, LAc, founder of The Dao Center in Berkeley:
I am a Memetic Healer and Cultural Acupuncturist who specializes in Clinical Cosmology and Mythic Engineering. I prescribe potent memes to shift physical burnout, emotional constipation, mental diarrhea, spiritual amnesia, and natural deficit. My main tools are Dao Alchemy (Self-Cultivation), Dao Acupuncture (Self-Healing), Dao Astrology (Self-Awareness):
Doctorate of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
Masters of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Bachelors of Science in Integrative Biology
Instructor of Balance Method Acupuncture
Transmitter of Daology (Dao De Gong Fa)
Sifu of WingChun